The practice of physick, reduced to the ancient way of observations, containing a just parallel between the wisdom and experience of the ancients, and the hypothesis's of modern physicians ... Together with several new ... dissertations; particulary of the tarantula, and ... its poison: of the use and abuse of blistering-plaisters: of epidemical apoplexies, &c / Written in Lattin by Geo. Baglivi.

  • Baglivi, Giorgio, 1668-1707.
Date:
1723
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Credit: The practice of physick, reduced to the ancient way of observations, containing a just parallel between the wisdom and experience of the ancients, and the hypothesis's of modern physicians ... Together with several new ... dissertations; particulary of the tarantula, and ... its poison: of the use and abuse of blistering-plaisters: of epidemical apoplexies, &c / Written in Lattin by Geo. Baglivi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Milk and Whey ia all Difeafes; others fpirituous and volatile Remedies; others Acids'and Alka- - lies, and others again Purgation and Bleeding. In fine, every Phyfician cries up a great many particular Remedies of this Nature according to his own Genius or the Accidents of his fit _ Practice; and imprudently throws away the reft, tho’ never fo much Approv d and Beneficial. Some are mighty Favourers of fome Theoretick or Practical Propofition, which they have either fuck’d from Books or invented themfelves; and model all the Rules of the Cure of Difeafes by that Propofition. T'were in vain to fpend time in muflering up all the erroneous Advances of this Nature; fince they are obvious to any one that ferioufly confiders the Performances of the Moderns, who have almoft funk the Pra&ice of . Phyfick, by following that Maxim of minding only a few things and pronouncing accordingly. Ii. Many Phyficians of this Age reckon Bleed- ing, Bliftering, Purging and other Galenick Re- - medies, at once fuperfluous and pernicious. This puny Thought was firft launch/d by Helmont, and having made various illufions in the ftraits of an inconfiderate and interrupted Experience, has gain'd a wonderful afcendant in the Minds of the Moderns, who being fond of Novelty, rail very haughtily, and to the infinite lofs of. their Patients, againft the ufe of fuch Remedies. O- thers take all Difeafes to fpring from an Acid, and pretend to Cure 'em by Alcaline ll cicdies; this way of Cure being the eafieft of all, and. apt to be learn'd in a few days, by every filly. ok - Woman, do's at prefent prevail beyond the othe C a P